Computer Science Jobs in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 56 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,216 4,674 9,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.89% 5.27% 6.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 5.52% 7.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,056 2,722 3,387
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,775 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,500 £115,000 £105,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,510 84,726 129,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.19% 95.62% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 53,935 50,178 72,983
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in England.

Salary trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +6 1,525 £75,000 -6.25% 840
South East +8 1,020 £60,000 +4.35% 251
North of England +76 650 £48,000 -12.73% 204
Midlands +20 389 £50,000 -4.76% 161
North West +66 363 £50,000 -16.67% 115
South West +11 357 £50,000 -15.53% 108
West Midlands +30 266 £50,362 -8.43% 92
East of England -2 254 £46,000 -4.66% 127
Yorkshire +92 227 £45,000 -14.29% 58
East Midlands -8 117 £42,500 -12.82% 69
North East 0 60 £48,734 +14.67% 33
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 126 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 84 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 80 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 42 (1.00%) Apache
5 40 (0.95%) CMS
6 39 (0.93%) Confluence
7 31 (0.74%) SAS
8 28 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
9 25 (0.59%) IIS
10 21 (0.50%) WordPress
11 11 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 11 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 10 (0.24%) OpenStack
13 8 (0.19%) Apache Pig
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.17%) Moodle
14 7 (0.17%) nginx
15 5 (0.12%) Luigi
16 3 (0.071%) Appian
16 3 (0.071%) WildFly
Applications
1 100 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (1.04%) Simulink
4 27 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.33%) Trello
7 11 (0.26%) SPSS
8 10 (0.24%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.047%) Sketch
11 2 (0.047%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.047%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.047%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.024%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.024%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.024%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.024%) Revit
Business Applications
1 51 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.66%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.21%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.19%) Shopify
8 5 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.12%) Odoo
9 4 (0.095%) CA PPM
9 4 (0.095%) Magento
9 4 (0.095%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.095%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.071%) Endur
10 3 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.071%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.071%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.071%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 779 (18.48%) AWS
1 779 (18.48%) Azure
2 257 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
3 237 (5.62%) Power Platform
4 234 (5.55%) GCP
5 165 (3.91%) SaaS
6 133 (3.15%) Serverless
7 107 (2.54%) GitHub
8 103 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
9 100 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
10 91 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
11 83 (1.97%) Amazon S3
12 59 (1.40%) PowerApps
13 52 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
14 51 (1.21%) Power Automate
15 40 (0.95%) Amazon Kinesis
16 39 (0.93%) IaaS
17 36 (0.85%) PaaS
18 35 (0.83%) Snowflake
19 32 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 160 (3.80%) Network Security
2 158 (3.75%) WAN
3 142 (3.37%) Firewall
4 120 (2.85%) Wireless
5 114 (2.70%) SD-WAN
6 91 (2.16%) TCP/IP
7 88 (2.09%) WebEx
8 86 (2.04%) Cisco IOS
9 82 (1.94%) DNS
10 78 (1.85%) VPN
11 55 (1.30%) Internet
12 47 (1.11%) LAN
12 47 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
13 44 (1.04%) HTTP
14 38 (0.90%) DHCP
15 37 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
16 27 (0.64%) VLAN
17 24 (0.57%) Ethernet
18 22 (0.52%) RS-232
18 22 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (9.44%) SQL Server
2 219 (5.19%) Power BI
3 176 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 175 (4.15%) MySQL
5 166 (3.94%) Relational Database
6 152 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
7 140 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
8 118 (2.80%) Redis
9 106 (2.51%) Big Data
10 82 (1.94%) Tableau
11 63 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 60 (1.42%) Hadoop
13 57 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
14 52 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 49 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 48 (1.14%) MongoDB
17 41 (0.97%) RDBMS
18 40 (0.95%) Data Lake
19 34 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
20 29 (0.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 491 (11.65%) Git
2 165 (3.91%) JIRA
3 83 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 80 (1.90%) Visual Studio
5 79 (1.87%) GitLab
6 50 (1.19%) Selenium
7 45 (1.07%) TeamCity
8 43 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 43 (1.02%) Moq
8 43 (1.02%) NUnit
9 40 (0.95%) Subversion
10 34 (0.81%) CMake
11 30 (0.71%) Burp Suite
11 30 (0.71%) Postman
12 28 (0.66%) Metasploit
13 26 (0.62%) Bitbucket
14 22 (0.52%) JUnit
15 21 (0.50%) Maven
16 20 (0.47%) Sourcetree
17 18 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,776 (42.13%) Social Skills
2 817 (19.38%) Analytical Skills
3 658 (15.61%) Finance
4 293 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 208 (4.93%) Manufacturing
6 206 (4.89%) Marketing
7 197 (4.67%) Electronics
8 128 (3.04%) Retail
9 113 (2.68%) Games
10 112 (2.66%) Legal
11 111 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
12 108 (2.56%) Public Sector
13 88 (2.09%) Banking
13 88 (2.09%) Telecoms
14 87 (2.06%) Law
15 81 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
16 71 (1.68%) Automotive
17 65 (1.54%) Aerospace
18 61 (1.45%) Military
19 54 (1.28%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,079 (25.59%) Developer
2 699 (16.58%) Senior
3 503 (11.93%) Software Engineer
4 386 (9.16%) Lead
5 266 (6.31%) Analyst
6 256 (6.07%) Software Developer
7 248 (5.88%) Architect
8 242 (5.74%) Senior Developer
9 213 (5.05%) Data Scientist
10 151 (3.58%) Junior
11 138 (3.27%) Senior Software Engineer
12 130 (3.08%) Graduate
13 128 (3.04%) IT Support
14 126 (2.99%) .NET Developer
15 111 (2.63%) Full Stack Developer
16 95 (2.25%) C# Developer
17 94 (2.23%) Support Specialist
18 90 (2.13%) Data Engineer
19 88 (2.09%) IT Support Specialist
20 86 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 637 (15.11%) .NET
2 394 (9.35%) React
3 393 (9.32%) HTML
4 377 (8.94%) CSS
5 250 (5.93%) AngularJS
6 165 (3.91%) .NET Core
7 162 (3.84%) ASP.NET
8 158 (3.75%) Node.js
9 143 (3.39%) RESTful
10 138 (3.27%) .NET Framework
11 133 (3.15%) REST
12 127 (3.01%) HTML5
13 123 (2.92%) Web Services
14 112 (2.66%) Kafka
15 101 (2.40%) JSON
16 99 (2.35%) Spring
17 91 (2.16%) Vue
17 91 (2.16%) XML
18 87 (2.06%) jQuery
19 79 (1.87%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 484 (11.48%) Algorithms
2 397 (9.42%) Management Information System
3 242 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
4 201 (4.77%) Data Structures
5 149 (3.53%) Client/Server
6 123 (2.92%) Product Ownership
7 104 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 96 (2.28%) Mobile App
9 95 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
10 90 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
11 86 (2.04%) Wiki
12 77 (1.83%) Cloud Native
13 74 (1.76%) Data Centre
14 70 (1.66%) IoT
15 65 (1.54%) Virtual Team
16 56 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
17 53 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
18 52 (1.23%) FPGA
19 51 (1.21%) Life Science
20 49 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 529 (12.55%) Windows
2 492 (11.67%) Linux
3 170 (4.03%) Android
4 129 (3.06%) Windows 10
5 96 (2.28%) Windows Server
6 81 (1.92%) Unix
7 62 (1.47%) Apple iOS
8 57 (1.35%) Mac OS
9 33 (0.78%) Kali Linux
10 30 (0.71%) Ubuntu
11 22 (0.52%) CentOS
11 22 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
11 22 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 19 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
12 19 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (0.26%) Debian
14 8 (0.19%) VMS
15 4 (0.095%) SUSE
15 4 (0.095%) Windows Vista
16 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,656 (39.28%) Problem-Solving
2 1,097 (26.02%) Agile
3 1,073 (25.45%) Software Engineering
4 711 (16.86%) Mathematics
5 519 (12.31%) Mentoring
6 512 (12.14%) DevOps
7 496 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
8 470 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
9 466 (11.05%) Data Science
10 446 (10.58%) Machine Learning
11 412 (9.77%) Analytics
12 381 (9.04%) Decision-Making
13 374 (8.87%) Project Management
14 362 (8.59%) Data Analysis
15 330 (7.83%) CI/CD
16 312 (7.40%) Roadmaps
17 282 (6.69%) Full Stack Development
18 278 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
19 269 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
20 261 (6.19%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1,005 (23.84%) Python
2 908 (21.54%) SQL
3 872 (20.68%) C#
4 767 (18.19%) JavaScript
5 497 (11.79%) Java
6 349 (8.28%) C++
7 317 (7.52%) TypeScript
8 291 (6.90%) C
9 148 (3.51%) PHP
10 119 (2.82%) PowerShell
11 107 (2.54%) R
12 79 (1.87%) Bash
13 78 (1.85%) Fortran
13 78 (1.85%) T-SQL
14 72 (1.71%) Go
15 63 (1.49%) Kotlin
16 59 (1.40%) Scala
17 57 (1.35%) MATLAB
18 38 (0.90%) Perl
19 34 (0.81%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 3,839 (91.06%) Degree
2 2,150 (51.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 699 (16.58%) Master's Degree
4 281 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 219 (5.19%) PhD
6 167 (3.96%) SC Cleared
7 152 (3.61%) CISSP
8 138 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 93 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
10 92 (2.18%) CISM
11 75 (1.78%) AWS Certification
12 72 (1.71%) Azure Certification
13 64 (1.52%) PMI Certification
14 57 (1.35%) PMP
15 54 (1.28%) CCNP
16 53 (1.26%) CCNA
17 48 (1.14%) CISA
17 48 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
18 44 (1.04%) A+ Certification
19 42 (1.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (5.88%) QA
2 105 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 103 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 91 (2.16%) GDPR
5 76 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 68 (1.61%) NIST
7 41 (0.97%) PMO
8 38 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.74%) WCAG
10 25 (0.59%) SLA
11 24 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 22 (0.52%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.36%) GRC
13 15 (0.36%) ISO 13485
13 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.33%) NCSC
15 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 11 (0.26%) CDISC
System Software
1 402 (9.54%) Docker
2 215 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 92 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
4 89 (2.11%) XenApp
5 86 (2.04%) Microsoft App-V
5 86 (2.04%) XenDesktop
6 75 (1.78%) Firmware
7 67 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
8 38 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
9 29 (0.69%) Hyper-V
10 26 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
11 12 (0.28%) HDFS
12 10 (0.24%) vSphere
13 9 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.17%) KVM
14 7 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.095%) pfSense
16 2 (0.047%) LXC
16 2 (0.047%) NFS
17 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 306 (7.26%) Kubernetes
2 156 (3.70%) Terraform
3 98 (2.32%) SCCM
4 86 (2.04%) AirWatch
5 61 (1.45%) Ansible
6 21 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (0.43%) Puppet
8 15 (0.36%) ZABBIX
9 14 (0.33%) Grafana
10 11 (0.26%) Nagios
11 10 (0.24%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.24%) WSUS
12 8 (0.19%) CASB
12 8 (0.19%) Nessus
12 8 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.19%) SCOM
13 7 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.17%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.17%) QRadar
13 7 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 698 (16.56%) Microsoft
2 178 (4.22%) Cisco
3 159 (3.77%) Google
4 108 (2.56%) Oracle
5 92 (2.18%) Citrix
6 89 (2.11%) SAP
7 82 (1.94%) VMware
8 62 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 39 (0.93%) Databricks
9 39 (0.93%) Xilinx
10 31 (0.74%) Adobe
11 30 (0.71%) Juniper
12 25 (0.59%) Apple
13 23 (0.55%) Atlassian
13 23 (0.55%) IBM
13 23 (0.55%) ServiceNow
14 21 (0.50%) Splunk
15 19 (0.45%) F5
15 19 (0.45%) Xamarin
16 15 (0.36%) Cognizant